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> On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Darren Sanders wrote:
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> >
> > >
> > > Alternate Simplified I/O interface (#1)
> > >
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> > Would you provide details regarding your motivation for proposing this
> > alternative interface? In what ways do you find your alternative
> > interface is superior to the version 0.5 MPI-IO interface?
> >
> Briefly: it supports the user's view of I/O
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> - MPI_Datatype(s) as the basic unit in a file (or stream)
> - "a priori" data formats (layouts)
> - "run length encoded" data formats
> - explicit communicators on collective operations
>
> and several other items listed in the "Functionalities" posting to
> mpi-io.
>